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Organizations A Very Short Introduction

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What this book knows

Organizations are dynamic human accomplishments—shaped by technology, culture, power, and sensemaking—that structure work and collective life.

Sex: Absent
Work: Primary
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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work-as-meaning

The three friends had created the business of their hippie dreams. Sales were so strong that other stores within the regional chain soon placed orders.
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They had failed to fully develop the adaptive function that might have allowed them to anticipate the market shift and reposition the business in time to save the company.
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New technologies allow for greater decentralization of decision-making and a reduction of hierarchy because data are more readily available.
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The technological imperative turned out to give an incomplete picture. The best way to organize depends on contingency.
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self-and-identity

Organizing as a dynamic process emerged when organizations started to be seen as ongoing accomplishments of sensemaking, social construction, and discourse.
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What was once an undifferentiated group of three people making belts around a kitchen table had become a technical core of specialized workers.
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